On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:32:03 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
ess (phil hunt) wrote:

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:06:01 -0500, Paul F Austin
wrote:

There've been a lot of religious arguments here about what "true
supercruise" is and what airplanes can do it and it plainly has to mean
"with ordnance aboard" or it means nothing at all. The F-22 is certainly the
fastest airplane in the world with anything more than a tank full of cannon
ammunition and possibly a pair of wing-tip missiles.

SR-71?

Not a lot of guns in SR-71s, and the YF-12s aren't even in existence any
more, right?

I don't believe an airplane needs ordnance aboard to supercruise, but
the SR-71s have, like the YF-12s, been retired to museums.

Mary

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Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer